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Call for expats to be included in U.S. coronavirus relief efforts, as citizenship-based tax regime faces test

The American Citizens Abroad has called on Congress, the Treasury and the IRS to include Americans who are resident abroad in any formal efforts to help U.S. citizens who have been affected by the current coronavirus pandemic.

March 25, 2020
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Dutch finance minister confirms banks don't need American clients' TINs for now, but questions remain

Dutch finance minister Johannes "Hans" Vijlbrief has responded to more than 20 questions posed to him by three Dutch lawmakers last month, on behalf of so-called "accidental Americans" resident in the Netherlands who have been struggling to maintain their Dutch bank accounts, by insisting that it would be "premature for…

March 21, 2020
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Events listing

The American Expat Financial News Journal's regular listing of events taking place around the world, and online, for American expatriates. Wednesday, Jan. 20: Dunhill Financial-sponsored Zoom webinar on 'How to Advise American expats (in a tax-compliant manner'); 2:30pm (GMT) Dunhill Financial, the London-based advisory firm specializing in helping American expats,…

March 19, 2020
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FATCA turns 10

Ten years ago today, in the Rose Garden of the White House, President Obama signed the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act into law. But surprising as it might now seem to some, the fact went virtually unnoticed by the world's media, as the legislation was buried deep inside a domestic jobs…

March 18, 2020
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The AXFNJ's collection of post-FATCA tax quotations for American expats

Almost every tax practitioner has his or her own favorite tax quotations; even the IRS has a collection of them on its website, as we noted here last year. But most of the tax quotes one hears are from another era. It was Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), after all,…

March 18, 2020
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Fabien Lehagre, at a European Parliament hearing on FATCA last November in Brussels

Accidental Americans' Lehagre to Mike Pompeo: 'Reduce exorbitant U.S. expatriation fee'

Fabien Lehagre, the U.S.-born and France-resident president and founder of the Paris-based Accidental Americans Association, has called on U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to "drastically...reduce the costs associated with the renunciation procedure", in order that so-called accidental Americans could give up their U.S. citizenship if they wished to.

March 17, 2020
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Concern among American expat small-business owners over proposed GILTI law tweak by U.S. lawmakers

American expatriates who own small- and medium-sized small business corporations outside the U.S. are expressing growing concern over what they say is a move by two Washington lawmakers to legislatively reverse a 2019 interpretation by the U.S. Treasury of elements of President Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which had…

March 16, 2020
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DC tax law expert named to head up ACA's Global Foundation

Glen Frost, managing partner of Frost & Associates LLC, a Washington, DC-area tax law specialist with six offices in the greater District of Columbia/Maryland and Virginia area, has been named president of the American Citizens Abroad Global Foundation (ACAGF), the sister educational and research organization to American Citizens Abroad.

March 15, 2020
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Jobs in the American expat-focused wealth, tax, and citizenship advice industries

American Expat Financial News Journal Jobs The best roles currently on offer in expat American wealth management, tax and related areas of expertise around the world London, England MASECO Private Wealth, a London-based, independent wealth management firm which specializes in looking after American clients with multi-jurisdictional wealth management issues, is…

March 12, 2020
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Latest ACA podcast: Overseas Vote's Susan Dzieduszycka-Suinat

Susan Dzieduszycka-Suinat, who heads up the Washington, DC-based U.S. Vote Foundation and its initiative aimed at expats, Overseas Vote, is the subject of the American Citizens Abroad's latest monthly podcast, on topics of interest to Americans resident outside of the U.S.

March 10, 2020
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U.S. charges Russian bank exec over failure to pay expatriation tax

The U.S. Justice Department has formally charged a Russian billionaire currently resident in the UK with failing to pay a tax on his worldwide assets when he renounced his U.S. citizenship, days after his company's initial public offering in 2013, according to government documents and media reports.

March 8, 2020
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Call for expats to be included in U.S. coronavirus relief efforts, as citizenship-based tax regime faces test

Dutch finance minister confirms banks don't need American clients' TINs for now, but questions remain

Events listing

FATCA turns 10

The AXFNJ's collection of post-FATCA tax quotations for American expats

Accidental Americans' Lehagre to Mike Pompeo: 'Reduce exorbitant U.S. expatriation fee'

Concern among American expat small-business owners over proposed GILTI law tweak by U.S. lawmakers

DC tax law expert named to head up ACA's Global Foundation

Jobs in the American expat-focused wealth, tax, and citizenship advice industries

Latest ACA podcast: Overseas Vote's Susan Dzieduszycka-Suinat

U.S. charges Russian bank exec over failure to pay expatriation tax

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Call for expats to be included in U.S. coronavirus relief efforts, as citizenship-based tax regime faces test

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UK MP vows to continue speaking out on behalf of ‘accidental Americans’ living in Britain

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